Chapter 548

---- The pause was brief; as soon as they recognized the Dukes crest, they let us through.

I shifted the lace curtain slightly.

Outside, the city was bustling, lively, busy.

Thad never seen such prosperity before.

My eyes darted across the massive stone buildings we passed, the crowded streets, filled with exotic goods and spiced aromas.

Ten years...

the world had moved on without me.

"Fix that expression.

Remember who you are now," Freya muttered, adjusting her headscarf.

With every meter forward, we drew closer to the hill, to the Dukes castle.

When the carriage finally stopped, I felt the coachman dismount.

Sweat dampened my back.

Panic coiled around my throat.

«My daughter.

Iam doing this for my daughter.

I cannot fail» I swallowed the lump in my throat, and as the door swung open, I adjusted my gloves and stepped into the role I had to play.

Katherine Pembroke died in that asylum.

I am Rossella Everhart.

The Duchess of Everhart.

---- From the moment I saw him, everything about him fascinated me.

His roughness, his wild, piercing blue eyes, his sharp and masculine features...

his disdain...

spilled from

«Not once...

not even once...

sek KATHERINE My body rocked with the movement of the carriage, the coachman urging

the

hills stretched endlessly toward the

behind the ever-present black clouds

realm, light always had to fight to break through

"Dont be nervous.

fine," Freyas voice pulled me from my

her wise, dark eyes and

eaten since

I couldnt.

refused

That word didnt even begin

had been our nursemaid, the only person in that house who had ever genuinely cared for me, and now! wanted her to come with me so

together, a thousand thoughts racing

and soon, the carriage halted before towering

---- would be condemned.

know where it

the strange

We never knew her.

spoke of

already on her way to that

didnt have the heart to kill her, so he

place, her daughter, and became the betrothed of the Duke living in

was a rushed,

no one dared to say it openly

they didnt

me my

behind my back» ook I staggered toward the bed,

fold in the carpet and my own

So much pain...

like that thing inside my body was consuming me,

heart beat slower and

smile, staring at the white ceiling, my trembling

moments, I thought

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